DPRK Offers Plan to Deal with Nuclear Capability

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DPRK Offers Plan to Deal with Nuclear Capability

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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that the United States is reviewing an offer from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) designed to address US concerns over its nuclear weapons and missile programs.

"The North Koreans (DPRK people) acknowledged a number of things that they were doing and, in effect, said these are now up for further discussion," Powell told reporters, talking about the trilateral talks among the United States, the DPRK and China in Beijing last week.

"They did put forward a plan that would ultimately deal with their nuclear capability and their missile activities," he said, adding that Pyongyang expects something considerable in return.

But the top US diplomat dismissed reports that the DPRK had threatened to carry out a nuclear test during the three-day Beijing talks.

He said the DPRK delegates did not "use the word test" and what they said is only "the kind of capability that one can display in one way or another."

Powell said that James Kelly, assistant secretary of state who led the US delegation to Beijing, is briefing senior Bush administration officials on the details of the talks.

The talks marked the first official face-to-face contact between the United States and the DPRK since Washington accused Pyongyang of conducting clandestine nuclear programs last October.

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